• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCP squeezed picture in Digital Cinema Desktop preview

  Posted by Natasa Damnjanovic on December 15, 2012 at 12:18 am

  Hi everyone,

  I’m editing Apple Prores 422 PAL 4:3 material in FCP7 on a Macbook pro. Now the problem is when I go into Digital Cinema Desktop preview to look at what I’ve done, the image playback is squeezed even more than 16:9 (more like 1:2.35). When I stop the playback the still frame displayed has regular 4:3 aspect ratio.

  Now since I’m working on a laptop, meaning only one screen, the only option I have under Video playback in Digital Cinema Desktop Preview – Main, so can’t really change that but even when I plugged in the hard drive to a Mac pro with two displays, changing Video playback settings didn’t help.

  Is there a way of changing the aspect ratio of the laptop screen itself OR is there another way of solving this problem?

  Thanks in advance!

  Sareesh Sudhakaran replied 13 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Sareesh Sudhakaran

  December 21, 2012 at 8:45 am

  PAL can have two pixel aspect ratios, depending on whether it is widescreen or not. The aspect ratio for both is the same, 4:3. Check that for your footage and project settings.

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